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Today's lead stories:
Ralph Nader on Upcoming Election
Nader's Financing Questioned
The ICC Inquiry into Uganda
Literacy Programs in Chavez' Venezuela
Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary
FSRN Headlines
Some of the fiercest fighting broke out in Iraq today. Dave
Enders files this report from Baghdad.
That was Free Speech Radio News correspondent Dave Enders
reporting from Baghdad.
Journalists were finally allowed to attend tribunals being
held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba today.
One man unidentified to the press, reportedly said through
a translator that he surrendered to Americans because he believed
Americans are for human rights. He confirmed that he was in
a car with a Taliban leader and was issued a rifle when he
was picked up in Afghanistan more than 2 years ago. The man
also said, with his hands bound and feet chained to a metal
ring on the floor, that arresting everyone calling themselves
Taliban was meaningless since many were uninterested in fighting
Americans. The tribunals have been set up to determine if
the U.S. military will continue to hold people under the Bush
administration’s created term of “enemy combatant.”
Each person has been given an advocate, without condition
of confidentiality or any other form of legal representation.
The Department of Defense has agreed to investigate the alleged
persecution of a Muslim chaplain who tended to prisoners being
held at Guantanamo Bay prison. Martha Baskin reports.
An upstate New York mosque was raided early this morning.
Catherine Komp has the story.
Tight oil supplies have crude futures hovering around $44
a barrel on the New York Market. And consuming nations may
no longer be able to count on OPEC to produce more to bring
down the price. More from Kellia Ramares.
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Ralph Nader on Upcoming Election
Yesterday, the Nader campaign announced it has submitted
enough signatures to be on the ballot in Connecticut. The
campaign says it has already submitted signatures in 16 states,
many of them considered to be battleground states such as
West Virginia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Many former
Nader supporters from the previous election are criticizing
Nader's 2004 run, saying this time Nader's campaign is not
supporting the development of a third party and can only serve
to re elect President Bush. Today we begin a two part series
in which FSRN reporter Mitch Jeserich speaks with Raph Nader.
Tomorrow FSRN will bring you Green Presidential Candidate
David Cobb.
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Nader's Financing Questioned
"Workers for the Nader Camejo campaign expect easy
access to the ballot in about 25 states with signiature requirements
as low as a thousand and later deadlines. The campaign is
concentrating on states with tougher requirements first, California
among them. The campaign is stepping up efforts to get on
the states ballot and plans to spend between a hundred and
fifty and two hundred thousand dollars to hire signature gathering
companies to compliment the efforts of volunteers in collecting
at least 70,000 more than the 153,000 signature necessary
for the August 6th deadline. FSRN's Tori Taylor has more."
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The ICC Inquiry into Uganda
The International Criminal Court in the Hague has begun
their inquiry into crimes against humanity by LRA rebels in
Northern Uganda, but one key player in the conflict, Sudan,
is off the hook, and as Joshua Kyalimpa reports from Uganda,
human rights campaigners are particularly concerned about
the development.
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Literacy Programs in Chavez' Venezuela
Just over 1 month ago, in Caracas, Venezuela, it was celebrated
that approximately 1.2 million people had learned to read
in the one year since the creation of the first Robinson Mission,
a program which was set-up in order to eradicate illiteracy
across the country. This year, the UN is set to declare Venezuela
0% illiterate. The Robinson Mission was the first of many
programs created in order to bring education, health, food
and employment to the poor barrios of Venezuela. The missions
were formed by President Chavez, and facilitated by the new
Constitution, which was passed by popular vote in 1999. The
results of these missions after a little over 1 year of existence
have been astounding and account for the huge support for
President Chavez in the poorer communities of Venezuela. FSRN
Correspondent Mike Fox has more from Caracas
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Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary
And now, from his cell on Pennsylvania's Death Row, Mumia
Abu Jamal comments on genocide.
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